Re: [Rdfapi-php-interest] RdfAPI / patches / future

[Tom H. <tom...@gm...>]

Hi Christian,

That sounds like great news that you'll have time to work on RAP. I
can't speak on behalf of the developers at all, but as an enthusiastic
user of RAP (in implementing projects such revyu.com) I love the idea
of even more development time being available to work on the library.

In particular the work on the SPARQL engine sounds great. I'll keep an
ear open for how it's going, and good luck :D

Tom.


On 14/11/06, Christian Weiske <cw...@cw...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> I am a student of information technologies in Leipzig, Germany and I am
> doing my master/German Diplom under supervision of S=F6ren Auer (creator
> of Powl). My task is to port Powl to use SPARQL, and to fix/enhance
> RAP's SPARQL engine to be more efficient and support the QL standard bett=
er.
>
> Now I do already have some patches lying on my harddisk that fix some of
> the simple bugs in the bug tracker, and half of a bigger one that wraps
> RAP into a PEAR-compatible package that can be installed and used more
> easily than today. Question is if the devs here do want this, or if I'm
> wasting my time.
>
> Advantages of the PEAR approach are:
> - Consistent class namings that don't clash with other packages. For
> this, I prefixed the classes with RAP_ and modified them according to
> the directory structure (e.g. RAP_Model_DbModel since it's in
> RAP/Model/DbModel.php)
> - Classes include the files they need directly, without those strange
> "proxy" files you are currently using (such as Model/DBase.php) that
> only include two files.
> - One of the bigger advatages: including files is a breeze, since PEAR
> has its own include path in most PHP installations - no need to define a
> RDFAPI_INCLUDE_DIR, just do a "require_once RAP/Model/DbModel.php" and
> you're done.
> - Very easily installable: "pear install RAP-0.9.6.tgz" and it's done.
> That way, other packages can /depend/ on RAP, so that it gets installed
> automatically if they install some PEAR-compatible-packaged application.
>
>
> I will spend the next 3/4 year working on Powl and RAP. May I get CVS
> access (username is cw...@us...) some time in the
> future? Whom shall I sent my patches?
>
>
> Another question: test/Readme.txt states that there are Unit tests for
> the API on the homepage. Unfortunately, I did not find them there or in
> CVS. Could somebody point me to the right place please?
>
> --
> Regards/MfG,
> Christian Weiske
>
>
>
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